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CVE-2016-0883

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0883 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Ops Manager versions prior to 1.5.14 and 1.6.9. The flaw stems from the use of a shared cookie-encryption key across different customer installations, enabling remote attackers to bypass session authentication by leveraging knowledge of this key from another instance. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

pivotal.io / security/pcf-ops-manager-weak-authentication-scheme
Vendor Advisory